Elsey v. J. L. Hudson Co.

This is an action on the case for damages, occasioned by the alleged negligent drop of an elevator in the store of defendant, causing injury to the plaintiff. On Saturday, November 30, 1912, the plaintiff, while upon a shopping tour, entered the defendant’s elevator on the main or ground floor of the defendant’s store in the city of Detroit. She desired to go up. The elevator had come from the basement, was even with the store floor, and the conductor or operator announced that it was going up. This elevator was of the Otis plunger type, operated by hydraulic power. It was capable of carrying…